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sixteenmo

[siks-teen-moh]
noun, plural six·teen·mos.
  1. Also called sextodecimo. a book size (about 4×6 in.; 10×15 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 16 leaves or 32 pages.
  2. a book of this size. Symbol: 16mo, 16°
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adjective
  1. printed, folded, or bound in sixteenmo; sextodecimo.
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Origin of sixteenmo

First recorded in 1840–50; sixteen + -mo
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Examples from the Web for sixteenmo

Historical Examples

  • Other sizes occasionally used are called “sixteenmo” or “sextodecimo,” “eighteenmo” or “octodecimo,” etc.

    The Story of Books

    Gertrude Burford Rawlings

British Dictionary definitions for sixteenmo

sixteenmo

noun plural -mos
  1. Also called: sextodecimo a book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper into 16 leaves or 32 pages, each one sixteenth the size of the sheetOften written: 16mo, 16°
  2. a book of this size
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Word Origin and History for sixteenmo

n.

"book printed on sheets of 16 leaves," 1847, from an English reading of the printers' Latin abbreviation 16-mo, representing sexto decimo "sixteen."

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